AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR
d. of Henry Wheeler Shaw] ''Chip Off the Old Block," a folktale. "Simon Suggs Goes to Augusty,'' by Johnson J. Hooper. Credits: Producer, Marion Parsonnet; director, Frederick Stephanie; film editors, Frank Madden, Morrie Roizman, Michael Cerone. Cast: Parker Fennelly, Jack Manning, Frederick Tozere
Registration LP2124 (part 8: 'Laughin',"' by Josh Billings [pseud) No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-07-15
- Claimant
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1981 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 34632–34647.
8. 'Laughin',"' by Josh Billings [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw] ''Chip Off the Old Block," a folktale. "Simon Suggs Goes to Augusty,'' by Johnson J. Hooper. Credits: Producer, Marion Parsonnet; director, Frederick Stephanie; film editors, Frank Madden, Morrie Roizman, Michael Cerone. Cast: Parker Fennelly, Jack Manning, Frederick Tozere. © 15Jul52; LP2124,
Copies on the Internet Archive
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